Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.
I'm always looking for a story.
Any story is better with a little love in it, right?
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope walk - every sentence is a step along the rope, and you can so easily misplace your step and break your neck.